I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me.At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace,and my passion as a war correspondent.- Christiane Amanpour

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.- Christiane Amanpour

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.- Christiane Amanpour

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guywho thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.- Christiane Amanpour

We do it because we're committed, because we're believers.- Christiane Amanpour

Because if we the storytellers don't do this,then the bad people will win.- Christiane Amanpour

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country,leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline,as somebody, as somebody mentioned?- Christiane Amanpour

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned,people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.- Christiane Amanpour

And I believe that good journalism, good television,can make our world a better place.- Christiane Amanpour

Our industry has invested so much money in technologythat perhaps it's time to invest in talent,in people.- Christiane Amanpour

We manage the fear, I manage the fear,but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.- Christiane Amanpour

If we have no respect for our viewers,then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?- Christiane Amanpour

And I really believe good journalism is good business.- Christiane Amanpour

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes,we understand and accept that, but surely there mustbe a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.- Christiane Amanpour

And one thing that I always believed and that I knewfor certain was that I could never have sustained apersonal relationship while I worked this hard,or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.- Christiane Amanpour

In emerging democracies like Russia,in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia,journalists play a vital role in civil society.In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.- Christiane Amanpour

I leave CNN with the utmost respect,love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here.This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years,and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.- Christiane Amanpour

Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion andconviction I once told an interviewer that of courseI would never get married.And I most definitely would never have children.- Christiane Amanpour

I was really just the tea boy to begin with,or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced,innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be,I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.- Christiane Amanpour

'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News.Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb traditionstarted by David Brinkley,is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forwardto discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.- Christiane Amanpour

The simplest questions are the most profound.Where were you born?Where is your home?Where are you going?What are you doing?Think about these once in a whileand watch your answers change.- Richard Bach

There are those that look at thingsthe way they are, and ask "Why?"I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.Live your life so that when you die,the world cries and you rejoice.- Indian Proverb

Look at everything as though you were seeing iteither for the first or last time.Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.- Betty Smith

Hide not your talents,they for use were made.What's a sundial in the shade?- Benjamin Franklin

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as truewere really true, there would be little hope of advance.- Orville Wright

Win as if you were used to it,lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We would never have a word for Joyif there were no suffering.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone freeand realizing you were the prisoner!- Max Lucado

Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;the question is which half.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You see things and you say, Why?But I dream things that never were and say, Why not- George Bernard Shaw

Follow your bliss and doors will openwhere there were no doors before.- Joseph Campbell

All that is necessary to break the spellof inertia and frustration is this:Act as if it were impossible to fail.- Dorthea Brande

Who were you before you put yourself last.- Mary Anne Radmacher

Many of life's failures are people who did not realizehow close they were to success when they gave up.- Thomas Edison

So your father, or your mother,never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We act as though comfort and luxurywere the chief requirements of life,when all that we need to make us really happyis something to be enthusiastic about.- Charles Kingsley

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.We ask ourselves,Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.Your playing small does not serve the world.There is nothing enlightened about shrinkingso that other people won't feel insecure around you.We are all meant to shine, as children do.We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.And as we let our own light shine,we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.As we are liberated from our own fear,our presence automatically liberates others.- Marianne Williamson

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.- Mary Anne Radmacher

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.- Soren Kierkegaard

Whenever you do a thing,act as if all the world were watching.- Thomas Jefferson

While they were saying among themselvesit cannot be done, it was done.- Helen Keller

Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity.Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.- Max Lucado

The journey between what you once wereand who you are now becomingis where the dance of Life really takes place.- Barbara De Angelis

The problems of the world cannot possiblybe solved by skeptics or cynicswhose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.We need men who can dream of things that never were.- John F. Kennedy

Act as if it were impossible to fail.- Dorthea Brande

When you are in any contest,you should work as if there were -to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.- Dwight D. Eisenhower

What if it were only an illusion?Perhaps life is not as threatening as it appears.Perhaps the greatest threat to our serenityis our fear of the future -our fear of the unknown.Perhaps, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said,"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself."- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are a child of God.Your playing small does not serve the world.There is nothing enlightened about shrinkingso that other people won't feel insecure about you.We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.- Marianne Williamson

The word "happiness" would lose its meaningif it were not balanced by sadness.- Carl Jung

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialitiesbut never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.- Quentin Crisp

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look backand realize they were the big things.- Robert Brault

I long to accomplish a great and noble task,but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasksas if they were great and noble.- Helen Keller

Beginning today, treat everyone you meetas if they were going to be dead by midnight.Extend to them all the care,kindness and understanding you can muster,and do with no thought of any reward.Your life will never be the same again.- Og Mandino

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energyon account of most of them?Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?- Dale Carnegie

If you were a warrior,you would know that the worst thingone can do is confront human beings directly.- Carlos Castaneda

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrongas all previous ages that thought so.How often have we not seen the truth condemned!It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.- Carl Jung